Movies

My Name is Wilkinson

26'56'' / 2000

Lode Desmet et Christine Borowiak

Ploegstraat, January 2000. A tractor brought to the surface the bones of a soldier who disappeared during the First World War. Patrick, an amateur archaeologist, identified the corpse : it appears to be Harry Wilkinson, a British soldier from the Lancanshire rifles in Manchester, who got killed during the night of the 10th of November in the course of an attack from the German troops. He is one of the 56.000 British soldiers who disappeared during the First World War. His descendants were rapidly found and his great granddaughter, Annette, accompanied with her daughter Georgia, decided to come to Belgium in order to find out more about this lost relative. The two girls met with various people who had witnessed the passing of Harry Wilkinson either directly or undirectly. They also visited the battlefields and some of the numerous British cemeteries of the region.